Mushroom farming · Pennsylvania

Hy-Tech Mushroom Compost, Inc.

West Grove, PA · ~42 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hy-Tech Mushroom Compost, Inc. runs at 203% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Mushroom farming workplace, earning a grade F.

Hy-Tech Mushroom Compost, Inc.: 9.2 TCR = 203% of Mushroom farming BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hy-Tech Mushroom Compost, Inc. safety composite

Hy-Tech Mushroom Compost, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

F

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

Hy-Tech Mushroom Compost, Inc.: 9.5 → 11.6 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 11.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.12× in 2019

Hy-Tech Mushroom Compost, Inc.'s TCR rose 2.1 from 9.5 in 2016 to 11.6 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 1.12× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111411 · West Grove, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.2 · 203% of ind

  • DART 10.3 DART
  • RANK #55/63
  • PHOTO Sylvan NV
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~42 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sylvan NV (0.2 TCR gap)

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Hy-Tech Mushroom Compost, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Hy-Tech Mushroom Compost, Inc. averages 9.2 TCR (203% of the Mushroom farming BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Hy-Tech Mushroom Compost, Inc. TCR series: 2016=9.5 · 2018=6.4 · 2019=11.6 · BLS 4.5

Where Hy-Tech Mushroom Compost, Inc. falls in its industry

107 Mushroom farming establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #55 safest of 63 Mushroom farming employers in Pennsylvania.

Hy-Tech Mushroom Compost, Inc. (42 employees, TCR 9.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 84 employees and a TCR of 4.0 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Hy-Tech Mushroom Compost, Inc.
Hy-Tech Mushroom Compost, Inc. (42 employees, TCR 9.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 84 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Hy-Tech Mushroom Compost, Inc. has fewer employees than the Mushroom farming median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2019 11.6 10.3 9 0 0
2018 6.4 6.4 5 0 0
2016 9.5 5.4 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111411 · PA · West Grove

107 Mushroom farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 23 employers in West Grove, PA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Sylvan NV 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Monterey Mushrooms Zellwood 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wharf 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Packing 8.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Needhams Mushroom Farm 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE KSS Sales 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hopewell Organics, LLC 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Moyer's Chicks, Inc. 42 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jennersville Hospital LLC 317 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jenner's Pond 259 FTE
CITY-NEAR GIANT FOOD STORES 6045 251 FTE
CITY-NEAR 106045 238 FTE
NAT-TCR Powerback Brightwood 9.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Gates Home Furnishings 9.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Frank Bevins Painting 9.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 2202 Everett Truss 9.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE SMT Lines - GO 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Plano Arbor Hills, LLC 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE ELTA North America 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cargill Animal Nutrition 42 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2019, 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.